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A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens ; edited by Richard Kelly.

Title
A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens ; edited by Richard Kelly.
Author
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publication
Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, N.Y. : Broadview Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
Kelly, Richard, 1937-
Description
239 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
Series Statement
Broadview literary texts
Uniform Title
Broadview literary texts.
Subject
  • London (England) > Fiction
  • Misers > Fiction
  • Poor families > Fiction
  • Scrooge, Ebenezer > Fiction
  • Sick children > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Christmas stories
  • Christmas stories.
  • Fiction
  • Ghost stories.
Note
  • Appendices (p. 127-237) include additional material by and about C. Dickens and the book.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-239).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Charles Dickens : a brief chronology -- A note on the text -- A Christmas Carol -- Appendix A: Reflections on Christmas -- From The Sketch Book / Washington Irving -- 'A Christmas dinner' / Charles Dickens -- From the Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / Charles Dickens -- From The Book of Christmas / Thomas K. Hervey -- The first Christmas card / John Calcott Horsley, Sir Henry Cole -- 'A Christmas tree' / Charles Dickens -- 'What Christmast is, as we grow older' / Charles Dickens -- Appendix B : child labor, education, and the workhouse -- Appendix C : from letters of Charles Dickens -- Appendix D : contemporary reviews of A Christmas Carol -- Appendix E : Notable film, television, and radio adaptations of A Christmas Carol -- Select bibliography.
ISBN
1551114763
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library